Five Texas Tech Freshman Speech Scholars Named
The five winners of the 1955-56 Texas Tech Freshman Speech Scholarships were announced by Dr. P Melville Larson. Each recipient will receive 100. The five, all recent high school graduates, are Mary Catherine Birkelbach El Paso Weldon Carriker Clairemont Margaret Crandray Lubbock Truman Dollar Borger and Dessie Oliver Seagraves. All plan to enter Tech in September.
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Texas Tech
P. Melville Larson
Larson
Mary Catherine Birkelbach
el Paso
Weldon Carriker
Clairemont
Margaret Crmdray
Lubbock
Truman
Dollar, Borger
Dessie Oliver
Seagraves
Future Homemakers of America
All- Austin
Carriker
Jayton High School
Oliver
Wellman High School
FFA
American Legion
Tech
Tahoka Grassland School Consolidation Election Set
Elections in Grassland and Tahoka school districts are scheduled for June 28 to decide consolidation. County Judge W M Mathis called the vote after petitions from 27 Grassland and 23 Tahoka supporters. A majority in each district is required to approve merging.
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Tahoka
Grassland
W. M. Mathis
Tohoka
Education Week Planning Starts in Lubbock
Committees formed by Lubbock public schools Lubbock Classroom Teachers Association American Legion and Lubbock Council of Parent Teachers Associations organize for the 35th annual Education Week in Lubbock November 6 to 12 with theme Schools Your Investment in America Emphasis on what schools contribute and purchases with tax dollars. Notable committee members include G E Dawson mayor proclamation G C Clapp Norman Heath and many others coordinating publicity posters radio television programs and speaker bureaus.
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Lubbock
Reuby Rhodes
Lubbock Classroom Teachers Association
The
American Legion
Rhodes
America
G. E. Dawson
G. C. Clapp
Norman Heath
C. G. Gray
FE. W. Reed
E. W. Jackson
Howard Day
Dorothy Lomax
Sue Lovett
Ruth Carter
Lennon Hill
A. F. Rasor
W. H. Avinger
Leo Warren
Carl Bailey
Ishmael Hill
Alfred Smith
Gordon Deering
Lubbock Ministerial Association
Jay Gordon
George Ann
Williams Named District Attorney for 106th Judicial District
Mitchell Williams, county attorney, was appointed district attorney of the 106th Judicial District by Gov. Allan Shivers. The district includes Lynn, Garza, Dawson, con, Terry and Yoakum counties. He succeeds Vernon A. Townes of Brownfield who resigned to become county attorney at Plains. Williams had been county attorney of Lynn County since May 1951. Harold Green is set to succeed Williams, having practiced law with Calloway Huffaker for three and a half years.
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Harold Green
Williams
Calloway Huffaker
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Mary Birkelbach
Miss Cowdray
Lubbock High School
National Thespians
Honorary
Children’s Theater
National Honor Society
Lubbock Little Theatre
Condray
Dollar
Borger High School
Dallas
Billy Bob Benton
Newsome
Tex
Benton
106Th
Westinghouse Electric
Corn Pepper Steam Server
Levine
Sheers
Boleros
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